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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness > Conscious & unconscious

The Child's Unconscious Mind - The Relations of Psychoanalysis to Education (Paperback): Lay Wilfrid The Child's Unconscious Mind - The Relations of Psychoanalysis to Education (Paperback)
Lay Wilfrid
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999. This is Volume XIV of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. Written in 1919, this book tests the hypothesis that the unconscious portion of each human mind, child or adult, is an activity which plays an extremely important, if not an exclusively controlling, role in the life of every individual.

Developmnt Conscience  Ils 242 (Paperback): Geoffrey M. Stephenson Developmnt Conscience Ils 242 (Paperback)
Geoffrey M. Stephenson
R1,359 Discovery Miles 13 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1998. This is Volume I in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. This work was first written as a Ph..D. thesis and submitted to the University of Nottingham under the title 'Conscience and Psychopathy: an investigation into the nature and development of the conscience'. It explores the problems of definition and assessment as well as outlining the results of the assessments made from listening to forty tape-recorded interviews: twenty with subjects diagnosed as psychopaths and twenty with normal subjects, acting as a control group.

Philosophy of Dreams (Hardcover): Christoph Turcke Philosophy of Dreams (Hardcover)
Christoph Turcke; Translated by Susan H. Gillespie
R1,915 Discovery Miles 19 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion, and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Turcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, mind, spirit, and God all developed in response. Until the beginning of the modern era, repetition was synonymous with de-escalation and calming down. Then, automatic machinery gave rise to a new type of repetition, whose effects are permanent alarm and distraction. The new global forces of distraction, Turcke argues, are producing a specific kind of stress that breaks down the barriers between dreams and waking consciousness. Turcke's essay ends with a sobering indictment of this psychic deregulation and the social and economic deregulations that have accompanied it.

Dreaming and Thinking (Hardcover): Rosine Jozef Perelberg Dreaming and Thinking (Hardcover)
Rosine Jozef Perelberg
R3,830 Discovery Miles 38 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book contains some modern contributions to the understanding and interpretation of dreams developed by contemporary psychoanalysts in the British Society, exploring the connections between dreaming and thinking.

The Unconscious - A Conceptual Analysis (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre The Unconscious - A Conceptual Analysis (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre
R2,523 Discovery Miles 25 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alasdair MacIntyre argues that Freud's conception of the unconscious is complicated by his tendency to use the term in two different ways. MacIntyre shows how Freud uses the term "unconscious" both as a straightforward description of psychological phenomena, and as an evaluative notion to explain the links between childhood events and adult behavior. This clarification helps to shed light on the many misunderstandings of psychoanalysis, and to separate out what is and what is not of lasting value in Freud's account of the unconscious.
This new edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and "practical rationality," and offers a rare comparison of Aristotle and Lacan on the concept of desire. MacIntyre takes the opportunity to reflect both on the reviews and criticisms of the first edition and also on his own philosophical stance.

The Two of Me - The Rational Outer Me and the Emotional Inner Me (Hardcover): John Birtchnell The Two of Me - The Rational Outer Me and the Emotional Inner Me (Hardcover)
John Birtchnell
R3,987 Discovery Miles 39 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Contents. Preface. Part I: The Outer Me/Inner Me Dichotomy. The Birth of an Idea. The Outer Me. The Inner Me. Part II: Other Conscious/Unconscious Distinctions. Psychodynamic Distinctions. Cognitive Distinctions. Part III: The Human Objectives. Survival. Reproduction. Relating. Part IV: The Receptive and Responsive Me. Sensory Input. Emotion. Memory. Part V: The Active Me. Motor Action. Communication and Language. Mental Activity. Part VI: The Complex Me. Deception and Self-Deception. Delusions and Hallucinations. Dreams. Part VII: The Social Me. The Arts. Humour. Religion. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.

From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance - Resurrecting the Mind (Hardcover): Howard Robinson From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance - Resurrecting the Mind (Hardcover)
Howard Robinson
R2,434 Discovery Miles 24 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents a strong case for substance dualism and offers a comprehensive defense of the knowledge argument, showing that materialism cannot accommodate or explain the 'hard problem' of consciousness. Bringing together the discussion of reductionism and semantic vagueness in an original and illuminating way, Howard Robinson argues that non-fundamental levels of ontology are best treated by a conceptualist account, rather than a realist one. In addition to discussing the standard versions of physicalism, he examines physicalist theories such as those of McDowell and Price, and accounts of neutral monism and panpsychism from Strawson, McGinn and Stoljar. He also explores previously unnoticed historical parallels between Frege and Aristotle, and between Hume and Plotinus. His book will be a valuable resource for scholars and advanced students of philosophy of mind, in particular those looking at consciousness, dualism, and the mind-body problem.

Jung and the Jungians on Myth - An Introduction (Paperback): Steven Walker Jung and the Jungians on Myth - An Introduction (Paperback)
Steven Walker
R1,146 Discovery Miles 11 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Carl Gustav Jung (1875- 1961) was never more insightful and intriguing than when he discussed mythology. The key to understanding the Jungian approach to mythology lies in the concept of the image, which provides the basis for his theory of the unconscious. By emphasizing the image over the word, Jungian psychology distinguishes itself dramatically from Freudian, Lacanian, and other psychologies that stress the task of interpreting the language - the words - of the unconscious.
In Jung and the Jungians on Myth, Steven Walker carefully leads the reader through the essential lines of thought in Jungian psychology before developing his method for using Jungian ideas to approach mythological texts. Whether one is sympathetic toward Jung's ideas or critical of them, one will find in Walker's discussion a lucid introduction to Jungian perspectives on myth and psychology.

Comparing Kant and Sartre (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Sorin Baiasu Comparing Kant and Sartre (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Sorin Baiasu
R2,454 R1,879 Discovery Miles 18 790 Save R575 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For a long time, commentators viewed Sartre as one of Kant's significant twentieth-century critics. Recent research of their philosophies has discovered that Sartre's relation to Kant's work manifests an 'anxiety of influence', which masks more profound similarities. This volume of newly written comparative essays is the first edited collection on the philosophies of Kant and Sartre. The volume focuses on issues in metaphysics, metaethics and metaphilosophy, and explores the similarities and differences between the two authors, as well as the complementarity of some of their views, particularly on autonomy, happiness, self-consciousness, evil, temporality, imagination and the nature of philosophy.

Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type - The reservoir of consciousness (Hardcover): John Beebe Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type - The reservoir of consciousness (Hardcover)
John Beebe
R5,127 Discovery Miles 51 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book encapsulates John Beebe's influential work on the analytical psychology of consciousness. Building on C. G. Jung's theory of psychological types and on subsequent clarifications by Marie-Louise von Franz and Isabel Briggs Myers, Beebe demonstrates the bond between the eight types of consciousness Jung named and the archetypal complexes that impart energy and purpose to our emotions, fantasies, and dreams. For this collection, Beebe has revised and updated his most influential and significant previously published papers and has introduced, in a brand new chapter, a surprising theory of type and culture. Beebe's model enables readers to take what they already know about psychological types and apply it to depth psychology. The insights contained in the fifteen chapters of this book will be especially valuable for Jungian psychotherapists, post-Jungian academics and scholars, psychological type practitioners, and type enthusiasts.

Modern Theories Of The Unconscious (Paperback): Northridge W L Modern Theories Of The Unconscious (Paperback)
Northridge W L
R1,574 Discovery Miles 15 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Art And The Unconscious - A Psychological Approach to a Problem of Philosophy (Paperback): Thorburn John M Art And The Unconscious - A Psychological Approach to a Problem of Philosophy (Paperback)
Thorburn John M
R1,591 Discovery Miles 15 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Visible Mind - Movies, modernity and the unconscious (Hardcover, New): Christopher Hauke Visible Mind - Movies, modernity and the unconscious (Hardcover, New)
Christopher Hauke
R2,826 Discovery Miles 28 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why is the moving image so important in our lives? What is the link between the psychology of Jung, Freud and films? How do film and psychology address the problems of modernity? Visible Mind is a book about why film is so important to contemporary life, how film affects us psychologically as individuals, and how it affects us culturally as collective social beings. Since its inception, film has been both responsive to historical cultural conditions and reflective of changes in psychological and emotional needs. Arising at the same moment over a century ago, both film and psychoanalysis helped to frame the fragmented experience of modern life in a way that is still with us today. Visible Mind pays attention to the historical context of film for what it can tell us about our inner lives, past and present. Christopher Hauke discusses a range of themes from the perspective of film and analytical psychology, these include: The Face, The Shadow, Narrative and Story, Reality in Film, Cinema and the American Psyche, the use of Movies in the Psychotherapy Session and Archetypal themes in popular film. Unique to Visible Mind, six interviews with top film professionals from different departments both unlocks the door on the role of the unconscious in their creative process, and brings alive the reflexive critical thinking on modernity, postmodernity and Jungian psychology found throughout Visible Mind. Visible Mind is written for academics, filmmakers and students who want to understand what Jung and Freud's psychology can offer on the subject of filmmaking and the creative process, for therapists of any background who want to know more about the significance of movies in their work and for film lovers in general who are curious about what makes movies work.

Sway - Unravelling Unconscious Bias (Paperback): Pragya Agarwal Sway - Unravelling Unconscious Bias (Paperback)
Pragya Agarwal
R362 R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Save R66 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Passionate and urgent.' Guardian, Book of the Week 'A must-read for all.' Stylist, best new books for 2020 'Cogently argued and intensely persuasive. Groundbreaking Work.' Waterstones, best new books of April 'Impressive and much-needed.' Financial Times, Best Business Books April to June 'Admirably detailed.' Prospect Magazine 'Practical, useful, readable and essential for the times we are living in.' Nikesh Shukla 'An eye-opening book that I hope will be widely read.' Angela Saini 'If you think you don't need to read this book, you really need to read this book.' Jane Garvey 'An eye-opening book looking at unconscious bias. Meticulously researched and well written. It will make you think hard about the judgements you make. An essential read for our times.' Kavita Puri, BBC Journalist and author For the first time, behavioural and data scientist, activist and writer Dr Pragya Agarwal unravels the way our implicit or 'unintentional' biases affect the way we communicate and perceive the world, how they affect our decision-making, and how they reinforce and perpetuate systemic and structural inequalities. Sway is a thoroughly researched and comprehensive look at unconscious bias and how it impacts day-to-day life, from job interviews to romantic relationships to saving for retirement. It covers a huge number of sensitive topics - sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, colourism - with tact, and combines statistics with stories to paint a fuller picture and enhance understanding. Throughout, Pragya clearly delineates theories with a solid grounding in science, answering questions such as: do our roots for prejudice lie in our evolutionary past? What happens in our brains when we are biased? How has bias affected technology? If we don't know about it, are we really responsible for it? At a time when partisan political ideologies are taking centre stage, and we struggle to make sense of who we are and who we want to be, it is crucial that we understand why we act the way we do. This book will enables us to open our eyes to our own biases in a scientific and non-judgmental way.

Consciousness - A User's Guide (Paperback, New Ed): Adam Zeman Consciousness - A User's Guide (Paperback, New Ed)
Adam Zeman
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A fascinating exploration of the nature of consciousness This engaging and readable book provides an introduction to consciousness that does justice both to the science and to the philosophy of consciousness, that is, the mechanics of the mind and the experience of awareness. The book opens with a general discussion of the brain and of consciousness itself. Then, exploring the areas of brain science most likely to illuminate the basis of awareness, Zeman focuses on the science of sleep and waking and on the science of vision. He describes healthy states and disorders-epilepsy, narcolepsy, blindsight and hallucinations after stroke-that provide insights into the capacity for consciousness and into its contents. And he tracks the evolution of the brain, the human species, and human culture and surveys the main current scientific theories of awareness, pioneering attempts to explain how the brain gives rise to experience. Zeman concludes by examining philosophical arguments about the nature of consciousness. A practicing neurologist, he animates his text with examples from the behavioral and neurological disorders of his patients and from the expanding mental worlds of young children, including his own. His book is an accessible and enlightening explanation of why we are conscious.

Figures of the Pre-Freudian Unconscious from Flaubert to Proust (Paperback): Michael R. Finn Figures of the Pre-Freudian Unconscious from Flaubert to Proust (Paperback)
Michael R. Finn
R943 Discovery Miles 9 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An original, wide-ranging contribution to the study of French writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book examines the ways in which the unconscious was understood in literature in the years before Freud. Exploring the influence of medical and psychological discourse over the existence and/or potential nature of the unconscious, Michael R. Finn discusses the resistance of feminists opposing medical diagnoses of the female brain as the seat of the unconscious, the hypnotism craze of the 1880s and the fascination, in fiction, with dual personality and posthypnotic crimes. The heart of the study explores how the unconscious inserts itself into the writing practice of Flaubert, Maupassant and Proust. Through the presentation of scientific evidence and quarrels about the psyche, Michael R. Finn is able to show the work of such writers in a completely new light.

Incubation in Problem Solving and Creativity - Unconscious Processes (Paperback): Kenneth J. Gilhooly Incubation in Problem Solving and Creativity - Unconscious Processes (Paperback)
Kenneth J. Gilhooly
R1,282 Discovery Miles 12 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Can problems be solved by setting them aside or by sleeping on them? Incubation, the process of stopping conscious work on problems for a set period of time, is an integral part of the creative problem solving process. Providing an overview of the main issues, findings and implications of cognitive research on incubation effects in problem solving and creativity, this book argues that incubation is an effective strategy for tackling problems that do not yield to initial solution attempts. Gilhooly reasons that unconscious work is automatic and explores the underlying processes involved in incubation, providing evidence to showcase the major role of unconscious processing in problem solving. Incubation in Problem Solving and Creativity concludes with a discussion of the implications of unconscious work theory for enhanced problem solving, positioning incubation as an effective and important stage in creative problem solving. This book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers of problem solving, creativity and thinking and reasoning as well as for students from all disciplines taking problem solving modules.

Your Secret Mind - Getting to Know and Living with Your Unconscious (Paperback): Hans Steiner, Rebecca Hall Your Secret Mind - Getting to Know and Living with Your Unconscious (Paperback)
Hans Steiner, Rebecca Hall
R1,097 Discovery Miles 10 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book will help the reader get to know their unconscious mind through a series of exercises. Results will serve all curious readers well, especially psychotherapists, writers, artists, actors and others working in the world of creativity. It is important for all of us to achieve a deeper understanding of who we are, with the satisfaction that commonly comes with that. Readers will be able to set free their hidden selves to direct their lives in new and satisfying directions. Humans have a complex unconscious mind, containing vital information about who we are, who we were and where we are going. Sigmund Freud deserves the most credit for pointing systematically to channels of access. Today's neuroscience has tested these points of access and is suggesting new ones. This book introduces five well-established methods of gaining useful access to our unconscious mind. The authors have taught the theory, science, and practice discussed in this book for over fifteen years at Stanford University to people of all ages, backgrounds, and interests. Having witnessed the growth of their students, they are confident about the positive contributions these exercises make to psychotherapy, creative work, and the sheer enjoyment of new horizons in our lives.

The Foundation of the Unconscious - Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche (Paperback): Matt Ffytche The Foundation of the Unconscious - Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche (Paperback)
Matt Ffytche
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The unconscious, cornerstone of psychoanalysis, was a key twentieth-century concept and retains an enormous influence on psychological and cultural theory. Yet there is a surprising lack of investigation into its roots in the critical philosophy and Romantic psychology of the early nineteenth century, long before Freud. Why did the unconscious emerge as such a powerful idea? And why at that point? This interdisciplinary study breaks new ground in tracing the emergence of the unconscious through the work of philosopher Friedrich Schelling, examining his association with Romantic psychologists, anthropologists and theorists of nature. It sets out the beginnings of a neglected tradition of the unconscious psyche and proposes a compelling new argument: that the unconscious develops from the modern need to theorise individual independence. The book assesses the impact of this tradition on psychoanalysis itself, re-reading Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams in the light of broader post-Enlightenment attempts to theorise individuality.

The Foundation of the Unconscious - Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche (Hardcover, New): Matt Ffytche The Foundation of the Unconscious - Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche (Hardcover, New)
Matt Ffytche
R2,857 R2,471 Discovery Miles 24 710 Save R386 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The unconscious, cornerstone of psychoanalysis, was a key twentieth-century concept and retains an enormous influence on psychological and cultural theory. Yet there is a surprising lack of investigation into its roots in the critical philosophy and Romantic psychology of the early nineteenth century, long before Freud. Why did the unconscious emerge as such a powerful idea? And why at that point? This interdisciplinary study breaks new ground in tracing the emergence of the unconscious through the work of philosopher Friedrich Schelling, examining his association with Romantic psychologists, anthropologists and theorists of nature. It sets out the beginnings of a neglected tradition of the unconscious psyche and proposes a compelling new argument: that the unconscious develops from the modern need to theorise individual independence. The book assesses the impact of this tradition on psychoanalysis itself, re-reading Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams in the light of broader post-Enlightenment attempts to theorise individuality.

The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness (Hardcover, New): Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, Evan Thompson The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness (Hardcover, New)
Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, Evan Thompson
R3,140 Discovery Miles 31 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness is the first of its kind in the field, and its appearance marks a unique time in the history of intellectual inquiry on the topic. After decades during which consciousness was considered beyond the scope of legitimate scientific investigation, consciousness re-emerged as a popular focus of research towards the end of the last century, and it has remained so for nearly 20 years. There are now so many different lines of investigation on consciousness that the time has come when the field may finally benefit from a book that pulls them together and, by juxtaposing them, provides a comprehensive survey of this exciting field. An authoritative desk reference, which will also be suitable as an advanced textbook.

A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing - A Window on the Soul (Paperback): Patricia Elwood A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing - A Window on the Soul (Paperback)
Patricia Elwood
R997 Discovery Miles 9 970 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Contains dozens of images. Accessibly written. Contains explanation of key Jungian ideas relating to interpretation of images by children and adults.

The Touch of the Past - Remembrance, Learning and Ethics (Paperback): R. Simon The Touch of the Past - Remembrance, Learning and Ethics (Paperback)
R. Simon
R1,266 R1,004 Discovery Miles 10 040 Save R262 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Roger Simon's new collection based on ten years of research, the respected scholar reminds us that historically traumatic events simultaneously summon forgetting and remembrance in unique ways. The Touch of the Past explores the ways in which remembrance, consciousness, and history affect how students learn and educators teach. Simon examines how testimonies of historic events influence learning and how communities deal with collective memory. A serious contribution to the research in education and memory and trauma studies from a top philosopher in the field.

The Unconscious - A Conceptual Analysis (Paperback, 2nd edition): Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre The Unconscious - A Conceptual Analysis (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alasdair MacIntyre argues that Freud's conception of the unconscious is complicated by his tendency to use the term in two different ways. MacIntyre shows how Freud uses the term "unconscious" both as a straightforward description of psychological phenomena, and as an evaluative notion to explain the links between childhood events and adult behavior. This clarification helps to shed light on the many misunderstandings of psychoanalysis, and to separate out what is and what is not of lasting value in Freud's account of the unconscious.
This new edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and "practical rationality," and offers a rare comparison of Aristotle and Lacan on the concept of desire. MacIntyre takes the opportunity to reflect both on the reviews and criticisms of the first edition and also on his own philosophical stance.

Dreaming and Thinking (Paperback): Rosine Jozef Perelberg Dreaming and Thinking (Paperback)
Rosine Jozef Perelberg
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Including papers on the dream space and countertransference, the dream space, the analytic situation and eating disorders, dreams of borderline patients and the 'oracle' in dreams: the past and the future in the present.

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